Vandalism and threats to heritage

The trend of placing padlocks on Parisian bridges, notably on the Pont des Arts, which we have repeatedly criticized for the way in which it mars one of the French capital's most beautiful spots, listed as a Unesco world heritage site, is not (...)

What we feared since this building by Gustave and Auguste Perret from 1926-1927 had been gutted by bulldozers, alas, did indeed come about : the Hôtel Aghion is today just a pile of ruins, as illustrated by the photographs sent by Cléa Daridan who (...)